republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2435.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber.	Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for best practices for law-enforcement officers responding to or investigating an overdose to notify the prescriber of any controlled substance found to be in the possession of or ingested by the victim that such prescription was involved in an overdose.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2435	Virginia HB 2435 (2025)	bill		enacted	Michael J. Webert	5	35	11	2025-01-08	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/41985905-bddf-429a-8fc6-b5de60980c66	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2435	5cf9c841c0fc03ace1fd66c32d15d10a698b5e3d914de20cb5711f03e75c03db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2435 (2025) — Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber.

Model policy for law-enforcement officer investigating overdose; notification to prescriber. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for best practices for law-enforcement officers responding to or investigating an overdose to notify the prescriber of any controlled substance found to be in the possession of or ingested by the victim that such prescription was involved in an overdose.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Public Safety Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Public Safety Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred to Courts of Justice and rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael J. Webert — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102471D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106513D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2435)
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Public Safety Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2435ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2435)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 273 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41985905-bddf-429a-8fc6-b5de60980c66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).